The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 21, sentence 90
In despair, the king ordered a proclamation to be made that whoever could bring her back to the palace should have her for his wife.
Who acts: king, proclamation, whoever · What happens: order, make, bring, have · To what, where: despair, proclamation, princess
This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 21. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (king, proclamation, whoever), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
Parsed by Mova, not checked by a teacher. This tree is Mova's own parse (the en model, on the CPU, when the site is built); it may be wrong.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | In | in | ADP | _ | 2 despair | case |
| 2 | despair | despair | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 ordered | obl |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 despair | punct |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 king | det |
| 5 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 ordered | nsubj |
| 6 | ordered | order | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 proclamation | det |
| 8 | proclamation | proclamation | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 have | nsubj |
| 9 | to | to | PART | _ | 11 made | mark |
| 10 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 11 made | aux:pass |
| 11 | made | make | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 8 proclamation | acl |
| 12 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 15 bring | mark |
| 13 | whoever | whoever | PRON | PronType=Rel | 15 bring | nsubj |
| 14 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 15 bring | aux |
| 15 | bring | bring | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 made | xcomp |
| 16 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 bring | obj |
| 17 | back | back | ADV | _ | 15 bring | advmod |
| 18 | to | to | ADP | _ | 20 palace | case |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 palace | det |
| 20 | palace | palace | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 back | obl |
| 21 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 22 have | aux |
| 22 | have | have | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 ordered | ccomp |
| 23 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 have | obj |
| 24 | for | for | ADP | _ | 26 wife | case |
| 25 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 26 wife | nmod:poss |
| 26 | wife | wife | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 have | obl |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 ordered | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | order | past | the king | despair | vn order-58.3-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||
| 2 | make | to-infinitive · passive | a proclamation not said here | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | bring | could | whoever | proclamation | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument she=Destination | ||||
| 4 | have | should | a proclamation | princess | for king's wife | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Patient |
One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.
Text: «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 2435 (public domain in the USA). Tree: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.
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